Uh, I was writing whimsically and lightheardedly. (My goodness, you can find fault and contention in the most inocuous and innocent places, ikegami.)

I know an ASCII text file cannot contain a Unicode BOM. The whole point of what I'm doing is to convert all the text files to Unicode if they aren't Unicode already. A purely ASCII text file is also a Unicode text file, just as it is also a text file in almost all other character encodings (but not EBCDIC, for example). So I'm going to add a BOM to all purely ASCII text files to make them not purely ASCII text files anymore. I'm doing this because, for better or worse, the world is now full of software that requires Unicode and is insistent that the Unicode-ness be unequivocal (i.e., that the text includes a BOM).

I mentioned EBCDIC as a lark. Smile, would ya! :-)

Thank you again for your help.

Jim

In reply to Re^4: What's the best way to detect character encodings, Windows-1252 v. UTF-8? by Jim
in thread What's the best way to detect character encodings, Windows-1252 v. UTF-8? by Jim

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